According to the study, current President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter all have slave-owning ancestors. According to the study, which examined extensive genealogies and census information of those in positions of power in Washington, DC, Obama’s ancestors have ties to slavery on the maternal side of the family.
According to the report, census records show that Biden’s great-great-great-grandfather owned a 14-year-old boy who was a slave in 1850. Regarding Biden’s alleged ties to slavery in his ancestry, the White House had no comment.
According to Reuters, Trump’s ancestors immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1885, two decades after the US Congress abolished slavery. The study also found that two US Supreme Court Justices, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, as well as 11 of the 50 US state governors last year shared similarities to slavery.
According to the report, Republicans in Congress are about three times more likely to have ancestry ties to slavery. These numbers reflect Republican support in the South, which at the time of the American Civil War in the 1860s had a much higher concentration of support for the slave trade than the North. Among the GOP contingent, 28% have such ties, compared to 8% of Democrats.
The study also shows that the ancestors of US lawmakers were among the wealthiest citizens at the time, with 75% of them ranked in the top 10% of Americans before the abolition of slavery.
According to survey results released by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with the report, 23% of respondents said a political candidate’s ancestry may have something to do with how they vote. According to the data, Democrats are more likely than Republicans not to support such a candidate.
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